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Portuguese health assets are being targeted by international groups for various reasons, either for the renowned excellence of this type of care providers, either because the Portuguese market in itself, shows an interesting potential. More and more, countries like Germany, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, UAE, France, Belgium or Macau populate the Portuguese Medical Associations’ website, with enticing offers directed to doctors of all specialities.

At the same time, private Portuguese Health care providers have been receiving interesting buying offers, as was the case of the recent highly concurred offer to ES Saúde, won by the Chinese of Fosun, through Fidelidade, disputed with José de Mello Saúde (Portuguese), the UnitedHealth Group (North-Americans already managing the Portuguese Lusíadas Hospital) and Ángeles (Mexicans).

If Portugal does not urgently implement, both at the private and public sector level, an adequate talent management policy, regarding human resources mobility for the health sector, it will soon have to deal with a serious shortage of these professionals and will only be able to capture and retain the less qualified.

This situation is critical, when:

Worldwide there is an insufficient offer of health care professionals, which will need years to be remedied;

The excellence of Portuguese health professionals is internationally recognized, and due to their current dissatisfaction are easy to entice with proposals;

The Portuguese health care provider sector has a large development potential either because the aging of the population implies an increased consumption of medical care services, the increased recognition of Portuguese medical care attracts, more and more, international patients, and Portugal is capturing an important quantity of new foreign residents in retiring age, due to the countries’ special fiscal conditions, a phase of life where they consume more of these services.

Although human resources mobility is something very positive for this sector, since these professionals obtain an important up-grade of their competencies, otherwise unreachable, the lack of re-capture polices for these assets, means that all the Government and private sector investment in these human resources training is thrown away. But it also means foregoing on the dividends of this important investment, by not using the added value these resources could bring to the development of Portuguese institutions/enterprise, in all their different areas.

Due to MOVING ON’s expertise in professional mobility issues and awareness of the health care sector specificities, they know how critical it is for an organization to integrate talent management with their inevitable mobility challenges. This integration should be conducted taking into account the organization´s business development perspective, and the human resources retention policy should be based on a timely and anticipated planning of that same mobility.

Find out how Moving-ON can help you implement a talent retention policy to answer new mobility challenges. Contact-us at on@moving-on.co.

(…)”Today, with 3.7% of the world population and 3.6% of the world’s total GDP, the Portuguese speaking market is a massive economic, social and cultural world power. Combining the largest economy in Latin America with the fastest growing countries in Africa, it’s future potential exceeds what analysts, politicians and policy makers could only have imagined just a few years ago.”

The concept of Serviced Apartments has evolved over the years and can now be generally described as an apartment alternative to hotel accomodation for long stay leisure or business travellers. But why should company employees choose serviced apartments instead of the services of a traditional hotel?

According to The Global Serviced Apartments Industry Report 2013/14, for the serviced apartment operators surveyed, their clients’ decisions to book are based on convenience (72%), price/ quality comparison (69%), cost (64%) and location (53%). The growth of quality serviced apartment offers in Portugal, has also started to confirm the international trend – that corporates need to feel at home away. In Portugal, Moving-ON represents the London based serviced apartment specialist company The Apartment Service (TAS) since 2003, with a growing local offer based on increased corporate demand. The latest addition to the portfolio – The Oeiras Atlantic serviced Apartments – is a convenient base close to business areas such as Lagoas Park, Tagus Park or Quinta da Fonte and most international schools.
For more information go to the TAS website

During the year we constantly see our customers come and go, most of them arriving or leaving with a mix of feelings, depending on their future expectations and what they have professsionally or personally experienced and achieved. However, it’s a well known fact that this is the time of year when it’s more difficult to leave our country: lovely beaches, shining blue seas, local “festas” and summer parties are all around, our amazing climate embraces us and everything seems so much better! So here’s a piece of advice: put your leaving plans aside and just enjoy the best of summer. Or if you’re thinking of coming to Portugal to live, why not come on a pre-orientation visit this summer?

Portugal also has a Non Habitual Residents status (NHR) that gives the opportunity to those who wish to become residents in Portugal to benefit from a favourable taxation of foreign income, with an exemption of taxation in Portugal and a possible double exemption, both in Portugal and in the country where the income is paid, if a Double Taxation Agreement is in place. The only requirement to benefit from this preferential treatment is to become a Portuguese tax resident, not having been a tax resident in Portugal in the previous five years. Read more and access all the official information here. Just send an email to on@moving-on.co and we’ll be delighted to welcome you to Portugal!

Moving-ON was present at the EURA 2014 International Relocation Congress held in Edinburgh from the 9th to the 11th of April. Speaking as a panellist in the “Diversify” session – dedicated to looking at innovations in destination services and talking to the people who have pioneered them – Isabel Cudell from Moving-ON (2nd from right) focused on innovating with online services.

According to Eurostat, the official statistics board of the European Union, nearly 60% of EU internet users shop online. In 2012, 75% of the respondents between 16 and 74 in the EU28 stated that they had used internet in the past 12 months, of which 60% indicated that they had shopped online in the same period. Time to visit our e-shop!

Moving-ON Student and Faculty relocation services are here to support students looking to study in Portugal. For more information on this, contact us at on@moving-on.co.

The concept of Serviced Apartments has evolved over the years and can now be generally described as an apartment alternative to hotel accomodation for long stay leisure or business travellers. But why should company employees choose serviced apartments instead of the services of a traditional hotel?

According to The Global Serviced Apartments Industry Report 2013/14, for the serviced apartment operators surveyed, their clients’ decisions to book are based on convenience (72%), price/ quality comparison (69%), cost (64%) and location (53%).

The growth of quality serviced apartment offers in Portugal, has also started to confirm the international trend – that corporates need to feel at home away. In Portugal, Moving-ON represents the London based serviced apartment specialist company The Apartment Service (TAS) since 2003, with a growing local offer based on increased corporate demand. The latest addition to the portfolio – The Oeiras Atlantic serviced Apartments -is a convenient base close to business areas such as Lagoas Park, Tagus Park or Quinta da Fonte and most international schools.

“(…) Year-on-year growth of 1.6 per cent in the final quarter of 2013 outstripped every other eurozone member, including Germany, while quarterly growth of 0.5 per cent, topped only by the Netherlands, shattered economists’ forecasts of only a 0.1 per cent increase.

Describing Portugal as the “eurozone’s new growth star”, Christian Schulz, a senior economist with Berenberg, says the EU’s sovereign debt crisis has been the “handmaid of change”, forcing peripheral member states such as Portugal to make “sweeping structural reforms” and improve their export competitiveness.

“Portugal, not Spain, is the biggest positive surprise in the [eurozone] periphery,” according to Ralph Solveen, an economist with Commerzbank. “Unlike in Spain, the unemployment rate has already come down significantly and employment has increased since the spring.”

16th February 2014, Expresso. Number of international students in portuguese universities and polytechnic institutes increased 60% in three years. For some schools the championship for more students is already played all over the world. The last data drom the Ministry of Education show the increase of international students attending portuguese teaching institutions. They were 19.425 in 2009/10 and grew to 31.183 in the last school year, transforming schools into a global village where youths from 174 nationalities cohabit. In all, they represented 8,5% of the total of enrolled students. The bet is increasingly on internationalisation, through the attraction of students coming from outside and also through the offer of courses in other countries. Read more: http://expresso.sapo.pt/alunos-estrangeiros-aumentam-60-em-tres-anos=f856065#ixzz2taBmyvZT

Good news for academia in the press this week: “…Portuguese universities should start to receive international students in the next year, according to the Portuguese Universities Counsel of Deans (CRUP) after a meeting at the Ministry of Education concerning the reorganisation of the higher education network. At the end of the meeting, CRUP’s President, António Rendas, announced that next year there should be “an entry route that will allow universities to receive international students”, as the international student statute “was favourably received” by the secretary of state. In a statement to the journalists, José Ferreira Gomes said that the international students diploma should be ready before Christmas.(…)”. (in www.dn.pt)